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The Heidegger-Buber Controversy The Status of the I-Thou
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Haim Gordon
Book Code: GM0917
ISBN: 0-313-30917-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30917-5
192 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/2001
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions in Philosophy
Series Number: 81
Reviews:
  • ...well written, balanced, and fair. Scholarly and clear, critical and perspective, this new book is a reliable reference on a key subject. For all readership levels.
    —Choice     October 2002
Description: The I-Thou controversy between these two thinkers is a significant but often overlooked issue in philosophy and theology. In one of the first books to truly address the subject, Haim Gordon explores the arguments of both Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber regarding the The I-Thou relationship and its significance for human existence. Gordon's work illuminates Heidegger's complex and enlightening ontology--one that describes the everyday life of the human in such a way that there is no place for the I-Thou relationship. Buber, on the other hand, argues for the significance of the I-Thou relationship within human existence, and highlights the ways in which Heidegger's philosophy fails to grasp this important point. After examining the fundamental ontology of Heidegger, set beside the ontological insights of Buber concerning this relationship, Gordon concludes that each of these important twentieth-century philosophers was guilty of ignoring the contributions made by the other to the study of ontology and being. By exploring the complicated dynamic between Heidegger and Buber, Gordon presents the reader with valuable insights and a deeper understanding of human existence and relationships. The implications of both this controversy and its resolution are far reaching for many other philosophical disciplines, including social and political philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology of Dasein
  • Being and Time
  • Dasein and the World
  • Dasein's Being-In, Care, and Truth
  • Dasein and Temporality
  • Heidegger's Rejection of the I-Thou
  • Phenomenology and Dasein
  • Heidegger's First Critique of the I-Thou
  • Heidegger's Study of Kant
  • Metaphysics and Logic
  • Buber's I-Thou
  • I and Thou
  • First Presentation of the I-Thou
  • Living the I-Thou
  • Beyond I and Thou
  • The I-Thou and Dialogue
  • Buber's Critique of Heidegger
  • Conclusion and Some Implications
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 00-052122
LCC Class: B3279
Dewey Class: 193
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